About

Hello, my name is Mitch Rees-Jones.

Who am I?

During my junior and senior years of high school, I attended the
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM),
a public residential high school for juniors and seniors that provides a
specialized STEM-focused curriculum for academically talented North Carolina
students.

What do I do?

While my experience lends itself more to full-stack development, I’m more
interested in, and now pursuing, more infrastructure, backend, data science,
data mining, machine learning opportunities. I did
some data infra work when working on Nuclide at my summer
‘16 Facebook internship, and am currently doing data mining research at NC State.

Here is my skillset, listed in order of more expertise => less expertise:

What do I do in my free time?

I run on the club cross country & track team at NCSU, play piano and cajon,
travel, and hike really tall mountains, among other things. I also cook and
occasionally make recipes and post them on this site.

Why do I have a website?

The short: It is (1) A place to store my projects in a publicly available
portfolio, and (2) A way to improve my communication and documentation skills
and (3) To see how my interests and skills evolve over time.

The long: I started programming in 2008, when I discovered batch files through
a family friend who works at IBM. I developed a small series of batch programs,
and although they didn’t really do much past opening websites and storing usernames
in a text file, they were a fun introduction to coding. When I started school
at NCSSM, I learned HTML, CSS, Python, and Java through the CS classes I took
in two years. Over time, my projects piled up, and organization was messy at
best. Over the summer, I learned git and started migrating my
projects to GitHub, in order to create a system with which I can
better document and organize my projects and coding habits. I decided that the
best way to manage these projects was with a personal website, and here we are.

Additionally, it serves as a public portfolio and ‘extended resume’ for potential employers.